Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming